Thursday, December 24, 2015

Celebrate Holiday Cheer

Cold rain slimes asphalt streets with gray despair as Marilyn pulls sticky gum from her hair. Zombies in scarlet sweaters stalk iced streets, singing carols and giving sugar treats. Come home and celebrate holiday cheer as we live and die on desolate sphere.

Orphaned children in freezing red-brick hall hang sad crayon pictures on dirt-smudged wall. Dressed in torn beard and pillowed Santa suit, Peter drinks beer and waves bent rusty flute. Come home and celebrate holiday cheer as we live and die on desolate sphere.

Michael shoots street lights with his bee-bee gun then stares in windows where children have fun. While Marilyn gives everyone fresh egg nog, Mark threatens Joshua with a Yuletide log. Come home and celebrate holiday cheer as we live and die on desolate sphere.

Huddled in torn blanket by locked church door, Richard mumbles ancient forgotten lore. Pulling out his gun in bright shopping mall, Darnell shoots wild to escape bloody brawl. Come home and celebrate holiday cheer as we live and die on desolate sphere.

While young Kaitlyn suffers cancer disease, Janice asks everyone, pray for her, please. Kaitlyn cries and trembles from nauseous pain yet no savior arrives from drizzling rain. Come home and celebrate holiday cheer as we live and die on desolate sphere.

Kneeling over coffin where Kaitlyn lies, Peter and Marilyn curse empty gray skies. Joshua leaves bloody footprints in sharp snow then jumps from high steel bridge in oily flow. Come home and celebrate holiday cheer as we live and die on desolate sphere.

Kim cradles new-born baby at her breast while hiding in cave from Holy Grail quest. Men fight wars over whose god is more real long after Helius invented the wheel. Come home and celebrate holiday cheer as we live and die on desolate sphere.

Our sun and planet are one spark of light in vast galaxy cluster that gleams bright. We are specks of pollen in field of life transformed into honey through endless strife. Come home and celebrate holiday cheer as we live and die on desolate sphere.

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About Me

I am a cartographer, geospatial analyst, and terrain developer by day, and epic poet by night.

I am writing an epic poem in blank verse titled Hermead about scientists and inventors of civilization. This bible for atheists and scientists is now 120,000 lines of blank verse covering the lives of 25 Greek philosophers.

I posted about 200 songs I wrote and composed at http://youtube.com/surazeus but do not expect anything more than amateur fun folk singing.

I was born in Oregon in the Year of the Beatles, grew up in Texas in the 1970s, went to high school and college in Takoma (Washington state) in the 1980s. I earned a Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts in 1988 at Washington State University. After living in Seattle for a few years, I hitchhiked around the country playing grunge folk in the 1990s.

I got a job as web designer at State of Michigan 1999-2004, then earned a Master of Science in Geographic Information Science 2005-8 at Michigan State University.

I have since lived in North Carolina and now in Georgia working as a cartographer. Where will I go next on the journey of life? My goal is to become a Professor of Literature at Harvard, which was founded by my ancestor, Thomas Dudley.

I married an Indonesian Muslim woman from Java Island and we have two cute daughters I named for goddesses of wisdom -- Saraswati and Athena.

I am generally a Gnostic Humanist. I do not know if there is a God or not, but the gods of history were humans who had a large influence on their times. What is most important is that I know myself and understand my perceptions, and recreate them in verse.

I am descended 13 generations from the Puritan Poet Anne Bradstreet. Her father, Thomas Dudley, signed the charter to found Harvard, and was descended from the Sutton-Dudley clan of Elizabethan England, who were descended from Joan of Acre, daughter of King Edward I and Eleanor of Castile.

My religion is Astarism.

Astarism honors First Mother Astara Ishtar Athena.

Ishtar sent Abraham and Sarah west and they founded Assurism, Olympism, Apollonism, Zoroastrianism, Mithraism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Sufism, and all their branches and offshoots.

Ishtar sent Brahma and Saraswati east and they founded Hinduism, Vaishnism, Shaivism, Buddhism, Krishnaism, Sikhism, and all their branches and offshoots.